Apparently, some people love the Pentax DSLRs because they can stand sand storms and heavy rain. I never imagined they could be subjected to this kind of hardcore testing. That’s probably why US Army soldier Alex Jansen, now deployed in Afghanistan, loves them. More »
Today marks one year since Atlantis roared on Launch Pad 39A en route to the International Space Station. It was the last of the 135 launches in the history of the space shuttle program. Here is an amazing video that shows them all at the same time. More »
The Stoner Channel: Jerry Seinfeld Gets Coffee, Stan Lee Drops In, and The Doors Smoke the Hollywood Bowl [Video]
Posted in: Today's Chili This video seems out of a Chuck Jones cartoon of the Roadrunner and the Coyote, but it’s real. It happened in Konakova, Russia. A BASE jumper jumped off the top of an electric post, 393 feet (120 meters) over the snow surface below. Unfortunately, his parachute failed. More »
This video shows every day scenes in a city, in the most impossibly awesome and freaky and mind-twisting way I can imagine. It’s the antithesis of the soothing time-lapses we are used to: a slit-scan video. What is it? Kamil Sladek explains: More »
According to NASA, Jack Scudder—a researcher at the University of Iowa—has found “hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field [that] open and close dozens of times each day.” Some of them are open for long periods of time. More »
Video from Space Shows Army Creating an Island Off the Coast of the US [Video]
Posted in: Today's Chili The Army has been creating an island since 1998 on the Northeast coast of the United States. Slowly, the US Army Corps of Engineers built dikes to establish its perimeter. They spent more than a decade filling them with mud. More »